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- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): late 18th century
The year is 1798. David Stoddart is a town councillor by day and a felon by night. After dark he wears a thief’s garb and prowls the streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town. But whatever the councillor steals he gambles...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
“I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day – traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade...
- Location(s): Glasgow, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Turn 21st Century
A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician’s resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times. Renowned photo-journalist Jude Montgomery arrives in Glasgow in 2014,...
- Location(s): Scotland, Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 2016
When a baby is stolen from a Scottish beach, private investigator Charlie Cameron reluctantly agrees to take the case. While her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later,...
- Location(s): Paris, Edinburgh, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 19th & early 20th centuries
This is William Boyd’s sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemoporary
A boy wakes up on a train to Edinburgh.He is shocked to discover that no idea who he is or how he came to be on the train – and once off it, he finds himself immersed in the...
- Location(s): Wigtown
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown – Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
One woman found dead. Another kidnapped. Two cases. Two books. One overworked Scottish detective. When the body of an attractive young woman is found in woodland on Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill, DI Jack Knox quickly establishes that she had...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Gerard is twelve. He hates his name, but loves flying round the streets of Glasgow on his bike, or mucking about with his gang, the Broncos. He’s a bright kid, but trouble seems to follow him. No one really...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern looking back to 1970s
Scotland 1972. Glasgow is haunted by a murderer nicknamed Red Silk – a feared serial killer who selects his victims in the city’s nightclubs. The case remains unsolved but Archibald Atto, later imprisoned for other murders, is thought to...
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